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...In the meantime, the Americans and Chinese are each brushing up on the thinking of Alfred Mahan, the 19th-century military strategist and author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History....
...“Horticulture as an art form, it’s hugely undervalued,” says Harry Hoblyn, head gardener at Charleston, the East Sussex home and studio of Bloomsbury group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant....
...A memoir by Vincent “Jimmy” Sheean prompted Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film Foreign Correspondent....
...Also included here are poems including “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” and “Journey of the Magi”, all of which will repay repeated listening....
...Alfred Sandrock, Biogen’s head of research and development who led the development of Aduhelm, announced his retirement on Tuesday....
...SpectrumX and its corporate adviser Alfred Henry have been aiming for an IPO in the current half, having missed an earlier deadline of end 2021....
...Notorious Where to watch: available on BluRay and DVD Alfred Hitchcock was never going to be able to resist a place as filled with intrigue as Miami....
...Over at the Hyatt hotel lecture theatre, a self-described “architecture fan girl” is waiting for a presentation on Alfred Hitchcock’s “architectural infatuations” to begin....
...Alfred Pearce-Higgins Kampala, Uganda...
...Alfred Hitchcock understood how cars convey meaning....
...The biologist Alfred Kinsey first alighted on his sexual spectrum in 1948....
...There had been speculation that Bond would be played by an established star such as Peter Finch, James Mason or Cary Grant. Instead the role made Connery an established star....
...She recognised our PM, whom she knew as Bozzie Bear, because of two hefty minders beside him, Grant and Gavin....
...The outfits sported by Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 crime thriller, are more often than not held up as the epitome of men’s summer style....
...The casting is yummy beyond belief: Ingrid Bergman as the good-time girl turned espionage pawn and nearly martyr; Cary Grant as her spymaster and lover-for-appearances (and eventually, we’ll be sure, for...
...They work in a former guesthouse in the 28-hectare grounds of Villa Hügel, a mansion on the outskirts of Essen built by Germany’s pre-eminent industrialist Alfred Krupp....
...Back in London, he established a new accountancy firm, Brian Alfred, specialising in securing tax rebates for self-employed workers, mainly in construction....
...After a drama-thriller outing with director Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956), she moved into a series of popular romantic comedies, soufflé-light though sophisticated, in the late ’50s...
...‘The walls are crumbling away’ Manchester Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse — who also designed London’s Natural History Museum — and built between 1868 and 1877 at a cost of about £1m, equivalent...
...She says she wants to give to young musicians “in the same way as [pianists] Alfred Brendel, Arthur Rubinstein and others had given to me when I was starting out”....
...In those days you had to apply for an Inner London Education Authority grant for drama school, and do an audition. I forgot my lines and was turned down....
...Once I was done wincing at all its many simplifications, the absence of fellow evolutionary pioneer Alfred Russel Wallace and all the rest of it, it dawned on me that this jumped-up, family-friendly puppet...
...Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup , by John Carreyrou, Picador, RRP£20/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$27.95 The rise, decline and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the blood-testing company...
...Grant’s hero Roger Thornhill is the definitively slick Madison Avenue ad-man, and the whole movie is best enjoyed as a splendid luxe commercial — for Grant and for Hitchcock, yes, but also for cinema itself...
...This figure doesn't even include the Pacific states, where industrialists received their own set of land grants after the Pacific Railway Act of 1862....
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